Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction until the Four Villains of Decision Making

    • Decisive for Job Decisions by Dan Heath

    • What Matters More in Decisions - Analysis or Process?

    • Identifying the Biases Behind Your Bad Decisions

    • How Warren Buffet Avoids Confirmation Bias

    • How Anger Derails Decision Making

    • Shura Approach to Decision Making
  • 2

    Read through the entire section on “Widen Your Options”

    • How to Make a Decision (Practical Muslim)

    • Diverse Teams Produce Better Decisions

    • Outsmart Your Own Biases

    • Fooled by Experience

    • Putting Your Intuition on Ice by Daniel Kahneman
  • 3

    Read through the entire section on “Reality-Test Your Assumptions”

    • What Tony Robbins Does After Making a Decision

    • Why You Should Not Go to Law School by Tucker Max

    • How Mental Models Unlock Your Thinking

    • Shane Parrish on Using Mental Models

    • The Decision Matrix
  • 4

    Read through the entire section on “Attain Distance Before Deciding”

    • The Psychology of Misjudgment

    • Pretend You’re Giving Advice to a Friend

    • Long Term Effects of Short Term Emotion

    • 5 Steps to Make Effective Decisions (Productive Muslim)
  • 5

    Read through the entire section on “Prepare to be Wrong”, and complete the rest of the book

    • One page summary of the book

    • Van Halen and the Brown M&M’s

    • To Reach Your Goals Imagine You Tried and Failed

    • Performing a Post-Mortem

    • The Stress of Indecision (Productive Muslim)
  • 6

    Summary Call

    • Decisive | Summary Call | Quarter 1 2020